The Welcome
A new edition of the important, long out-of-print novel
Blues and Trouble
Twelve Stories
Now back in print, the debut story collection from a celebrated American writer
Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana
Never before in English, a travel-adventure novel of two young women navigating antebellum Louisiana
Forty Acres and a Goat
A call with no steeple from the preacher with no pulpit
Brother to a Dragonfly
The National Book Award-nominated memoir of a preacher, author, and civil rights activist
High Cotton
Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
A paean to the vanishing family cotton farm
Pelican Road
A Novel
The riveting story of a lost way of life along a great southern railroad
On The Gulf
A collection of short stories, all set on the Gulf Coast, by a master of the form
Jujitsu for Christ
A rowdy novel of a Jackson preacher and martial arts devotee who finds himself in the heat of Mississippi’s nadir
Fire in the Morning
A great writer’s first novel of a southern family’s vendetta
A Lifetime Burning
A novel of passion denied and a woman’s enduring search for love and truth
The Rock Cried Out
A restless, young generation collides with a South in transition
The Snare
The reprinting of a major southern writer’s New Orleans novel that explores a young woman’s temptation to live on the periphery of evil
The Night Travellers
A Vietnam-era novel of love, protest, and fervent beliefs
This Crooked Way
A classic novel of one man’s will and the undercurrent of violence in the Mississippi Delta
New Orleans Sketches
Faulkner’s early fictional forays that foreshadow a Nobel Laureate in the making
The Big Ballad Jamboree
A southern literary master’s captivating novel about the rise of a Nashville-bound singer as “hillbilly” evolves into “country”
Spheres of Liberty
Changing Perceptions of Liberty in American Culture
A historical overview of the concept of liberty in American culture and thought
Falling Through Space
The Journals of Ellen Gilchrist
Enhanced with fifteen new essays, the benchmark of an acclaimed writer’s spunk and sense of place
Inside Peyton Place
The Life of Grace Metalious
The juicy biography of the scandalous novelist who lifted the lid off a New England town
The Pursuit of a Dream
The story of a utopia created by Mississippi freedmen on a white man’s former plantation
Mule Trader
Ray Lum's Tales of Horses, Mules, and Men
A mule trader’s tales from a culture enriched by his fascinating presence
Beetlecreek
A novel in which there is candid treatment of desperate isolation in a small town’s black quarter
Me
A Book of Remembrance
A Chinese-Eurasian’s autobiographical novel tracing a woman’s dual quest for a writing career and romance
The Light in the Piazza and Other Italian Tales
Seven fascinating tales in which southerners surrender to the mesmerizing spell of Italy
For Us, the Living
A widow’s love story of her life with Medgar Evers, the NAACP civil rights leader murdered by a midnight assassin
Dark Princess
The remarkably complex romance in which Du Bois confronted the twentieth century world that had closed itself to people of color
Apostles of Light
A spellbinding novel named as a finalist for the National Book Award in 1973